\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \pard\tx16530\ATXts24014595\ATXbrdr0 \f1 Italian painter.\par
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This Italian painter is mentioned in a document of 1262, which re
cords him as working in Arezzo. He signed various paintings such as the \i Madonna and Child Enthroned\i0 at Montelungo, on which a seventeenth-century inscription gives his name and the date 1250, must have been one of his early works. On the other han
d, the \i Cross\i0 in the parish church of Arezzo and the dossal of Santa Maria della Vertighe at Monte San Savino, which Margaritone signed together with another painter, Ristoro, mentioned in a document of 1280, date from later in his career. The pane
l representing \i Saint Francis\i0 in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, which has subsequently been repainted, should be dated around 1260. The evolution in MargaritoneÆs style appears to have been influenced by his contact with Florentine artist Coppo di Marcov
